Wine

Wine

A personal collection of modest to good wines drunk in recent years. Most are rated 3* or 4* in Platter and priced between approximately R50 – R150 in the year of purchase.

For visitors to this page unfamiliar with South African wines, the standard reference is Platter’s South African Wines. It began publication as John Platter’s Book of South African Wines, a slim hardback (19.5x9cm) of 119pp, covered in red Skivertex. It has been published annually (except 1981) in the same format since 1980, with the colour of the cover changing each year.

Details of the editions published to date can be found at the bottom of the page.